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The Rage of Dragons
The Rage of Dragons is a 2017 African inspired revenge Fantasy Novel by Evan Winter. It is the first novel in the burning, his first published series, which follows the character of Tau on his quest to avenge his loved ones.

Plot
The Omehi, a caste-based society flee their home continent to get away from "The Cull". They arrive at their destination and go to war with the natives, losing many of their “Chosen”, beings with incredible powers they decide to take drastic measures and their queen summons a dragon and burns their landing spot to ashes.

In the present day, The Omehi are still at war with the natives. The story follows Tau, a lowborn commoner who wants to skip the fighting and live a peaceful life with his girlfriend Zuri however, his father as an accomplished soldier is hired to tutor a noble named Jabari. Jabari and Tau become friends. During a raid by the natives, Tau gets thrown into a world infested with demons where the chosen draw their power from called isihogo and almost gets eaten by a demon.

The noble division of the military arrive at their town for recruiting and Tau and Jabari enter as sparring partners. Another noble decides to spar with Tau using an actual sword instead of a sparring one, and Tau trips him in self-defence. The Nobles are insulted by this, and one of the proctors challenges Tau to a duel to the death. Tau's father steps in to defend him and the proctor's champion Kellen Okar cuts his hand off. Jabari's brother then kills him decides to kill Tau at the funeral. Zuri finds out she is one of the chosen, and is taken to the capital to train. Tau's swears vengeance on those involved in his father’s murder.

Tau breaks into Jabari's house and kills his brother, he then flees to another village where the lesser division is holding trials. He wins a few rounds but has his arm broken in a fight with another warrior. Jayyed, another proctor likes his spirit and decides to train him. Tau finds Zuri in the city and they run into Kellen Okar in the streets, Tau challenges him to a fight and is promptly beaten down. Zuri teaches Tau about isihogo and that death in the other world can cause him to go insane but Tau enters isihogo regardless and is rapidly killed by a demon. He becomes more unhinged and bent on revenge and decides that training in isihogo is going to give him the power he needs.

After training in Isihogo, Tau is incredibly strong and enters a tournament, he learns of a peace treaty between the omehi and the natives. Tau’s team wins the first round and in the second round duels with the opponent’s leader and wins again causing the lower caste to look up to him.

The final match is against Kellen Okar and Tau finds out that Kellen did not want to kill his father and injured him so that he might be spared. Regardless Tau faces Kellen and almost defeats him but his team loses at the last minute. After the match the natives launch a full-scale assault on the omehi, and a rogue cell of upper caste members execute a coup and attempt to assassinate the queen. Tau, Jabari and Kellen team up to stop this from happening and confront the their enemies, tau easily defeats his opponents but the leader Abasi escapes after injuring Jabari.

Zuri uses her powers to control a baby dragon and begins wiping the natives out, but she overuses her power and has to sacrifice herself to save Tau and his team, causing Tau to finally go completely insane. The natives make it to the queen who offers a ceasefire, which the natives accept. The queen makes Tau her champion and orders him to kill Abasi who staged the coup to which he willingly accepts.

Reception
The Rage of Dragons was generally well received, with CBC putting it in their 47 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring.It has 4.36/5 stars on goodreads and most reviewers have acclaimed the novel as a success for the first time author with popular "Booktuber" Daniel Greene stating "I COULD NOT STOP READING THIS! Holy Crap, bar raised for first-time authors."